E-Fest 2010

E-Fest was a blast. Got a lot of flying in. I think my wife enjoyed it too. But what's funny, is I didn't notice the lady in the background knitting until after I took the picture.

Great Christmas Gifts

Something for the Bus, and something to suck money out of my wallet.

No more Paramount

And the Paramount has sold. It will be missed, but I'm glad it's new owner will take care of it.

Bus Progress

Got more work done on the bus engine. Slowly tearing it down, things are looking decent.

Flamingo

This is this weeks Schwinn find, in all it's pink glory. Two neat stories about this bike. In 1977 Schwinn introduced this color, calling it Flamingo. People in the 70's must have hated it, because after a few months Schwinn discontinued it. Now any Flamingo colored '77 Schwinn is fairly hard to come across.

I bought this bike from it's original owners. In '77 or '78 they won it in a contest while they were living in Chicago. They picked it up at Sumbaum's Cycle Co, Joliett, Ill. The shop sticker is still on the seat tube. Over 30 years later, and it's still in great shape. I've been looking for a nice 5 Speed Twinn to replace our single speed, and this one is just about perfect.

Last Trip, 2009

Went to the Indy VW Show today. This was probably the last trip with the VW for 2009. We left at 6am with freezing temps, and froze our way to Kokomo. Met up with some friends in the Kokomo club and caravaned (more freezing) down to Lebanon for the Circle City VW Club Volkstoberfest. Did I mention the Beetle has no heat? Cold day, but fun.

Kokomo Oktoberfest 2009

Oktoberfest was rainy but the turn out was good. Had somewhere around 80 cars. We went on a cruise the next day to a Grist Mill and Covered Bridge. As always, the Beetle performed flawlessly, adding about 260 miles over the weekend.

More pictures here:

http://s50.photobucket.com/albums/f343/blue72beetle/Oktoberfest%2009/

And here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/75317872@N00/sets/